Gadgetory

so we're here today to check out some new stuff with the link m.i.c hubs is part of a big New York City effort they're putting thousands of these hubs all over the city to provide free Wi-Fi but there's also going to be an Android tablet installed in each hub and that's what we're gonna check out today so this is it you can see we've got Internet free calling city services maps and then this sort of puts it back so you know if you're new to New York you want to find your way around you can pull this up and it'll just bring up this Google map slightly slow I think that's not the gigabit that's broken the processor but yeah and this will do all the you know things you expect from a Google map and that's exactly where we are 1315 so they're gonna install these all the way up third Avenue is the current plan really all the way off the island so it's just gonna go straight up Manhattan and in the Bronx well another couple of things gone but that's that's how the conduits are stretched so then we want to go out and go back to home it sort of works just like you'd expect an Android tablet there's the home button the back button if we want to access city services here we are you can make a complaint someone's parked bad taste the money or the city get a 3-1-1 app let's find out stuff right your neighborhood pay parking ticket or you can just go on the Internet so this is all fed by a gigabit cable that we're running in a conduit up and down the sidewalk so you know we've got other services there's audio case you wanna plug your headphones in 911 if there's an emergency you can just push that button that summons it and this is the dialpad most importantly if your phone is running low on battery as mine currently is there's USB power which you can plug in down here and then it's charging this is a importantly a power only connection so you don't have to worry about catching malware or anything or you can't upload files or anything from it so it's obviously not the most powerful tablet we've ever seen but having these on street corners all around the city be a really cool thing